I went to burn a movie to DVD today and found out it only accepts bup, vob and ifo. My question is, is there a program that allows you to change WMV to any of the above? Like with Compupic you can change any type of picture to a gif, jpeg etc so I was wondering if there was a media equivalent.

Thanks,

<~Spike~>

Finally after a month of hard work, my board has reached its launch.

http://neongallery.proboards77.com/index.cgi

I have loaded this site with everything under the sun. Tons of pictures, wallpapers, avatars, video files and much more, and I'm still updating!

This board has a little bit of everything. I hope you guy's will check it out, and pass it on to other people on other forums.

If you become a registered member (which I hope you will) make sure to check out the different skins I've created.

Have fun,

<~Spike~>

I put a signature banner into the edit layout and it appears on my profile but not in my posts. What am I missing?

*EDIT*
Never mind it seems like I've fixed it. Mods can close this thread.

<~Spike~>

Does anyone know where the subbed version can be downloaded? I've found it all over the net but the links are mostly yousendit which expire in like 24 hours.

Thanks,
<~Spike~>

This is a really cool free MMORPG.

http://eng.pristontale.com/

If anyone plays give me a holler online.

Server: GALANTIA
In-game server: Alpha
Character Names: Zelgodis or Spiike

<~Spike~>

X-men 3 is coming in May, what does everyone think?

Here is the first teaser trailer in high def that I uploaded for your viewing pleasure.

X-men 3 Teaser Trailer

Here is the full cast list.

Patrick Stewart .... Professor Charles Xavier
Hugh Jackman .... Logan/Wolverine
Ian McKellen .... Eric Lensherr/Magneto
Halle Berry .... Ororo Munroe/Storm
Famke Janssen .... Jean Grey/Phoenix
James Marsden .... Scott Summers/Cyclops
Rebecca Romijn .... Mystique
Kelsey Grammer .... Hank McCoy/Beast
Vinnie Jones .... Cain Marko/Juggernaut
Aaron Stanford .... John Allerdyce/Pyro
Daniel Cudmore .... Peter Rasputin/Colossus
Shawn Ashmore .... Bobby Drake/Iceman
Olivia Williams .... Dr. Moira MacTaggart
Ellen Page .... Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat
Shohreh Aghdashloo .... Dr. Kavita Rao
Ben Foster .... Warren Worthington/Angel
Anna Paquin .... Rogue
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Andrew Abud .... Chauffeur
Cayden Boyd .... Young Warren
Cameron Bright .... Leech
Riley Cantner .... X-Kid
Eric Dane .... Jamie Madrox/Multiple Man
Ashley Hartman .... Emma Frost
Bryce Hodgson .... Artie
Chelah Horsdal .... Mercedes Mom
Shauna Kain .... Theresa Rourke/Siryn
James Leard .... Doctor
Vince Murdocco .... Omega Red
Michael Murphy .... Warren Worthington, Jr.
Luke Pohl .... X-Kid
Dania Ramirez .... Callisto
Haley Ramm .... Young Jean
Connor Widdows .... Jones
Susan Wilkey .... Nurse
Kea Wong .... Jubilee
Mercedes Yvette .... M

Here is the official site link.

http://www.x3movie.com/

and a few pictures not featured on the site.







<~Spike~>

Well I know what I want to do but I have no knowledge of how to do it. I need to know everything. How to put my wallpaper into the menu. How to set up battle animations and character portraits. How to rig cutscenes and how to create sprites in the image of whatever character I want to use for my RPG.

So basically I don't know the first thing about how to get started. Once I know how to do it I can do the game my self.

Thanks again,

<~Spike~>

Well I checked out some of the RM95 and I think the graphics are much better on the 2k. Especially with all of the cool menus and such.

I've gathered so far from you're guy's posts that you can't help me with the 2k then? Can you guys think of anyone else I could deal with?

Thanks again
<~Spike~>

This site is really great. It's like Atom or Ifilm without all the ads.

It has everything, games, flash films, animated films and more check it out.

http://www.newgrounds.com/

<~Spike~>

Well hey guys!

I'm the new vamp in town errr forum. I found this forum by accident last night when I was looking up stuff about RPG maker 2000 (which I also happened to find by accident in an old Gamespy thread)

So now that I'm a member I figured I'd introduce my self. My name's Brad and I've been around for 17 years! (Can you believe it? A long time huh?) I've been gaming probably eleven of those years and been into movies and music for all of them (just not on the level that I'm at now)

So I've been around the site and you've probably started to see posts by me, so say hey and I'll be happy to drain you of your bloo....er ideas.

<~Spike~>


P.S. What is up with all the backgrounds and huge pictures in the posts? Kind of strange.

*This is a review I wrote on an X-men site a few weeks back. I have since finished the game and the review still stands. Enjoy...*


Well I finally got my PC version of X-men Legends II: ROA last night! Now I've only played about an hour or two but here is my official review so far.......


Well after getting my X-game in the mail yesterday and finally ripping open the UPS box I was first disappointed to see they opted for the open cover which is an awesome thing that has been around for a few years and provides insight into the game. But instead of just leaving it they put this **** Velcro on the front so it literally rips your game box in half if you don't open it carefully.

But who cares about the game box right? After loading the three disc PC game I was ready to boot up this monster...or not. The mouse can't be bound to any keys so it took me almost 20 minutes just to get a working formula for my keyboard. After that I was ready to actually get *into* the game......or not… again. Some games Normal actually translates to Hard and Hard translates to Insane so I always try Easy first. Well Easy in this game was an understatement. In an hour I had a team of four lvl 14 mutant immortals. Wait....you can play four mutants? What would I want to do that for? Enemies just fall in front of me before I even attack. Needless to say I've started a Normal game and found it much more of a challenge.

After all of the technicalities let’s get down to the game. First off one of the reasons I got the PC version was for the extra characters, big mistake! Here I'm really looking forward to running around with Wolverine and Sabretooth tearing stuff up right? Well Sabretooth sucks! He walks like a bozo he fights like a moron and his voice over sounds like a drunken tiger. So then since Sabretooth was never written into the game as a playable character, you can walk around with Sabretooth and still have the NPC Sabretooth (and Pyro once you get to him)standing around. You can even talk with yourself!! Then when you talk to other characters (such as Blink) as Sabretooth you sit there and have a conversation about yourself (Sabretooth) like you aren't even there. Example......

As Sabretooth: "Well Sabretooth told us he was trying to save you. But that doesn't sound like him, he would never try to help anyone."

Blink to Sabretooth: "Please don’t talk about Mr. Creed that way."

So yeah if you're a Sabretooth extreme fan maybe you'll enjoy it but I found my self feeling like I was playing a bad Gameshark hack to put party members in that didn't belong. Plus the ultimate sabretooth looks soooo bad. He walks around with a knife in his belt WTF does a bad @$$ with sharp fangs and huge claws need a knife for??!!??

Also they make it a big deal that the flying mutants can fly to *unreachable areas* in the game. So I grab Magneto and fly him over to the little floating semi-island that is *unreachable area* figuring he can handle whatever there is solo. When all of a sudden what's this? All of my party members have magically jumped over the huge space and appeared by my side on that again *unreachable island*

I also don't really like the whole having all of the party members to start with. I mean after about ten minutes I picked the six I would play with and didn't even feel compelled to bother with the rest.

Now to the good parts 8)

The opening cinematic is just amazing pure X-men all the way!

Almost all of the Brotherhood/X-men are voiced by top notch actors. The first game was really unfelt and boring sounding to me, but almost everyone in this one hits the characters right on. I especially enjoyed Wolverine and Cyclops so far.

Yes the character models are still nasty cell shaded crap but the environment is amazing compared to the first one!

The game play is fun but it's kind of hard to get the mutant powers mapped on the keyboard and access them while trying to fight. They really put some time and thought into the characters and how their powers and such affect them. Take Juggernaut for example, he moves pretty slow compared to the rest of the group but when he gets near something watch out, anyone up for some demolishing? For the walls or any destructible thing it takes a quite a few hits from other party members but, with Juggernaut three hits at the most 8)

As you progress through the game it's really awesome to unlock new costumes for each character (AOA, 616 and more)

Also there are lots of different conversations scattered through-out the game that you can initiate by having certain members in your party. Such as a hilarious encounter with Kitty Pryde (Shadow Cat) chewing out Colossus for the rumors of him liking Scarlett witch lol.
So all in all......

The gameplay gets repetitive after awhile, but if you're a X-men fan (like I am) you'll really enjoy the game. I liked it just to see everything I've come to like about the series translated into an RPG, they have lots of little inserts of stuff from the books that will keep and fan always excited about seeing it show up.

Gameplay: 9
Voice-overs: 10
Character Graphics: 6
Environment Graphics: 8
Cinematic Cutscenes: 10
In-game cutscenes (briefing):9 Even though it's bad graphics the actors do so well in portraying the Brotherhood and X-men that it warrants a 9.
Bugs: 2 (Nothing a patch couldn't take care of.)

So I give X-men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse (Drum roll)..........

[9.6]

So there you have it. TAKE THAT gaming magazines!!!

*Hope this helps anyone that was thinking about getting the game*
<~Spike~>

Well I know this thread is kind of old, but I just got here so....


Final Fantasy VII (PS1)

Star Wars: Knights of the old republic (X-box)

Final Fantasy X (PS2)

Deus Ex: Invisible war (PC)

Vampire the masquerade: Bloodlines (PC)

Chrono Cross (PS1)

Septerra Core (PC)

I noticed that most of you are into the older games but as you can see from my picks, I'm into the newer technology age of gaming.

<~Spike~>

I've got to say FF series I mean FFVII, IX and X were pretty sweet on the RPG level.

<~Spike~>

Yeah I've heard of the other three makers also. But I didn't want to use 95 because it has even worse graphics and such then the 2000 version. And the 2003 and XP I read are extremly hard to figure out.

As for starting with a test game that's a given, I wasn't planning on trying to start my project first.

My only problem is I have no idea about any of this stuff, but I'd really like to learn.

Any help is appreciated 8)

<~Spike~>

Well I just found RPG maker 2000 a few nights ago, and since then I have been playing alot of the games available on http://gamingw.net/games/rpg/?

So recently I've been thinking more and more about making a game my self. I have the RPGM2K and the English RTP for it, but I don't know the first thing about putting it all together. I have a good tutorial that I found but I need help with making sprites and putting pictures and sounds and such into it.

I was planning on making a X-men based game, I know it can be done (see the Batman thread) if someone wouldn't mind taking the time would anyone be able to maybe walk me through it on MSN messenger or lead me to a better tutorial that will tell me how to create my own characters, cutscenes and the works.

Thanks
<~Spike~>